Sustainable Minds is the first on-demand, Web-based software and information service providing a comprehensive system for companies to credibly estimate, evaluate, and track their products' lifecycle environmental performance -- and to enable rapid iteration and comparison of product concepts in early-stage design. Easy to understand and use, it is affordable for small and large businesses and educational institutions to develop the skills and knowledge to grow revenue and markets through greener product innovation.

I don't have an MBA, but I have earned my SIlicon Valley MBA.  Let me explain. When I was a few years out of college, I considered going back to get an MBA.  I liked working in the valley and knew that I wanted to spend my career in tech and ultimately around startups - at that point I had only worked for Apple.  So I asked around to a lot of people I knew well and respected.  People who I thought had been successful in their careers and whose path I wanted to learn from.  Many of them had MBAs and some did not.  I wanted to hear their perspectives on the value of a traditional MBA.

Marketo is a revenue cycle management company that is transforming how marketing and sales teams of all sizes work-and work together-to accelerate predictable revenue. Marketo's solutions provide explosive revenue growth throughout the revenue cycle from the earliest stages of demand generation and lead management to deal close and continued customer loyalty.

Fluffy Spider Technologies has been developing embedded software since 1995. A pioneer in the industry, FST has a background in real-time systems, defense, and telecommunications. Between 1995 and 2000, FST translated this fundamental knowledge into producing outstanding solutions for some of Australia's leading process monitoring and control installations (BHP), defense subcontractors (GEC), and later within the emerging mobile telecommunications industry (Vodafone, Optus, and Telstra).

Colbert, in his absurd way, drills home an excellent point: "If you're not careful, your online past could destroy your offline future." While this segment is certainly humorous, people have lost jobs, and lives have been altered forever. Some of this is simple abuse of those who aren't savvy to online social networks. Some of it is just dumb people finding a new platform on which to be dumb.

One thing is for sure. If you screw up, your mistake will reach a much broader audience much faster than it would have 10 years ago. Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google had the following advice, "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

Knowing who is *actually* friends with whom IRL (and not just accepting a friend request out of social guilt or apathy) would be a valuable data set to own. The IRL social graph has existed for as long as humans have formed friendships, yet throughout that history I can’t think of any really high quality historical attempts to map it. I’d go so far to say the IRL social graph is so important that the social graphs of many popular web services are valuable based largely on their ability to proxy the IRL social graph.

Dataguise provides automated and advanced database security solutions to help ensure regulatory compliance and protect against data theft. Dataguise's dgdiscover focuses on sensitive data discovery and classification across the enterprise, while the dgmasker product solution provides secure masking of database content with unprecedented flexibility and functionality across heterogeneous environments.

Berkeley Design Automation produces technology related to analog, radio-frequency, and mixed-signal integrated circuit verification. Its analog FastSPICE unified circuit verification platform combines the accuracy, performance, and capacity needed to verify GHz designs in nanometer-scale silicon. Design teams from top-10 semiconductor companies and leading startups use the AFS Platform to efficiently verify their AMS/RF circuits.

iPipeline provides a next-generation suite of sales distribution software as a "clean technology" to the insurance and financial services markets through its on-demand service. iPipeline's channel solutions for carriers, distributors, and producers automate activities for quoting, forms processing, illustrations development, agency management, requirements ordering, contracting, and content distribution, letting the insurance industry market, sell, and process faster.